whitelisted (hwitlisted)

Having white stripes or lists on a darker ground (the tree in the quotation having been torn with lightning). He raised his eyes and saw The tree that shone white - listed thro' the gloom. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. white-livered (hwīt'liv"érd), a . Having (according to an old notion) a light-colored liver, supposed to be due to lack of bile or gall, and hence a pale look-an indication of cowardice; hence, cowardly. whitening For Bardolph, he is white - livered and red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but fights not. Shak., Hen. V., iii. 2. 34. As I live, they stay not here, white - liver'd wretches! Fletcher ( and another ), Elder Brother, iv. 3. white-livered? When they come in swaggering company, and will pocket up anything, may they not properly be said to be B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. whitelyt (hwit'li), a. [ white1 + -ly1.] White; pale. A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow. Could I those whitely Stars go nigh Which make the Milky-Way in Sky. Shak ., L. L. L., iii. 1. 198 (folio 1623). Howell, Letters, ii. 22 (song). white-marked (hwit'märkt), a. Marked with white, as various animals. - White-marked moth, Tæniocampa leuco graph a, a British noctuid. - White marked tu ock-moth, a common North American vaporer, Orgyia leuco stigma. See tu ock - moth, and cut under Orgyia, 2. In conch., white-meat (hwit'mēt), n. [ white + meat .] See white meat , under whitel . white-mouthed (hwit'moutht), a. white-lipped. whiten (hwi'tn), v . [ hwitnen = Icel. hvitna = Sw. hvitna = Dan. hvidne , whiten, become white; as whitel + -en1.] I. in trans. To become white; turn white; bleach: as, the sea whitens with foam. Whiten gan the orisounte sheene Al ester ward, as it is wont to done.